NSN is seeking nominations for Keynote speakers who could address the role of storytelling in honoring the past and shaping our future. How can stories and/or storytelling play a leading part in creating tomorrow?
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DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Scheherazade On The Fourth Floor © Dan Yashinsky >According to the Thousand and One Nights, every night Queen Scheherazade told a story, and every night she stopped halfway through. It would have driven her listeners crazy, but one of them – her husband King Shahriyar
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If you don’t want to produce a Showcase, you can still submit a story or story idea for possible inclusion in the NSN Showcases. Share your story on the theme “Creating Tomorrow” here!
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The NSN Producers & Organizers SIG Pre-Conference Workshop July 2007 By Nancy Donoval and Loren Nieme As a preparation for Theater and Storytelling collaborations, here is a set of questions and considerations that are worth asking before undertaking a collaboration. What is the project? O
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by Joel ben Izzy. Reviewed by Lani Peterson. Sought out by banks, law firms and organizations to teach storytelling technique, Joel ben Izzy is quickly becoming one of the most visible players in the storytelling field. Not bad for a storyteller who only six years ago had no voice. Literally. His story is thoughtfully unraveled
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WSYR-TV, Syracuse, NY, July 7, 2018 Summary For the first time, the New York State Fair will have a two-day storytelling event, on Friday and Saturday, August 31 and September 1. Friday night’s event will be a competition called The Great New York State Story Slam, in which 10 people will be chosen randomly. They will
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CBS 21 December 14, 2019 Lancaster City was named the 6th “Welcoming City” in the U.S. this past September. As part of the Pennsylvania Refugee Resettlement program, 401 asylum seekers now call Lancaster home. And while Lancaster has many Amish families who have lived there for many generations, there’s not a lot of mixing between
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New Haven Independent (New Haven, CT), February 27, 2007 Summary: The Jamestown Project at Yale is holding storytelling sessions from now through June that will allow New Haveners to tell their stories, in hopes of building trust and community. Storyteller Catherine Conant created a warm and welcoming circle for those who came to the two-hour
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by Mary Jo Huff The storyteller has arrived and the children are getting ready for a special treat. Sitting on the floor with their legs twisted like a pretzel, eyes wide and fidgety fingers the pre-schoolers are all ready for storytime. Enter the storyteller dressed for the occasion. As a visiting storyteller I wear a
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Told by Mary Hamilton Click to Listen hamilton-jumprope About the Story Many years ago, while sitting at the kitchen table of my storytelling friend and colleague Cynthia Changaris, I told her I felt it was way too easy for me to remember times when I had felt wronged, and I wondered what I would tell
